About thirty-seven persons are
feared dead following raids and reprisal attacks between The Joint Task Force
on Security (JTF) and militants yesterday in the suburbs of Jos, the capital
city of Plateau State in Nigeria.
The JTF, chidi opara reports
learned lost two policemen, while the militants lost twenty-one fighters.
Fourteen civilians reportedly lost their lives in the attacks.
“A good number of people have been
rendered homeless”, a JTF contact in Jos told chidi opara reports this morning
on phone.
There has not been any official
statement on the identity of the militant group(s), but there are speculations
that they were of the Fulani ethnic stock.
The Plateau state capital city has
been witnessing violence along ethnic and religious lines for some time now.
The state located in the
North-Central region of Nigeria produces farm products like potatoes, corn and
tomatoes sold across the nation.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please restrict your comment to the subject matter.